beweep

American  

[bih-weep] / bɪˈwip /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

bewept, beweeping

1. to weep over (something).

   to beweep one's foolish mistakes.

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Etymology

Origin of beweep

before 1000; Middle English bewepen, Old English bewēpan. See be-, weep ¹

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Example Sentences

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beweep beweeping bewept

Carter works with Reagan to maintain U.S. foreign policy When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries...

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, becoming a priest, he would still, whenas he celebrated mass at the altar, an he were seen of many, beweep our Saviour's passion, as one whom tears cost little, whenas he willed it.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne

Lend me a fool's heart and a woman's eyes, And I'll beweep these comforts, worthy senators.

From Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare

Let all that lives and moves upon the earth Weep him, and all that is without life weep; Let Gods, men, brutes, beweep him; plants and stones!

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold

Let all that lives and moves upon the earth Weep him, and all that is without life weep; Let Gods, men, brutes, beweep him; plants and stones.

From Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Hark, in Ramah is heard lamentation  15 And bitterest weeping, Rachel beweeping her children, And will not be comforted,648 For they are not.

From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Sir George Adam Smith

So the "Indians" of the New World never meet after long parting without beweeping mutual friends they have lost.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Yet haue mine eies quite drawne their Conduits drie By long beweeping my disastred harmes.

From A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier by Mary Sidney Herbert

The Empire was bewept,—let us acknowledge the fact,—and bewept by heroic eyes.

From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood

King Saman-lāl-pōsh—Jessamine, wearer of rubies—had so bewept the loss of his sons that he was now blind.

From The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

I betook the book to their campfire, howadji, and I smote upon my breast and I bewept me and I wailed aloud and I would not make comfort.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 by Various

My poor Vladimir, bitter tears Thee but a little space bewept, Faithless, alas! thy maid appears, Nor true unto her sorrow kept.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Henry Spalding

"If we all bewept our injustices," said I oracularly, "Noah would have to come back and build a new ark for a bigger flood than his."

From From a Bench in Our Square by Samuel Hopkins Adams

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